Spider-Man 3 is baffling. All the ingredients are there for a fantastic ending to the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, with the returning cast at the top of their game, the newcomers being suitable stars and the CGI finally catching up … Continue reading Spider-Man 3 (2007) Review
Hairspray was a musical written back in the 80s and it shows. Not because of the comedy or the songs, both of which are passable and certainly catchy, but because it delivers a story which is more than a little … Continue reading Hairspray (2007) Review
For all the stereotypical teenage comedies that have been and gone, ones set in the usual high school with usual types of students doing the usually unrealistic things, there is the occasional movie which gets it right. Superbad is one … Continue reading Superbad (2007) Review
I’ve never been on the Cohen brother’s bandwagon. Where some people see genius, I see convoluted plotting, snail-pace story-telling and sometimes arrogant stylised techniques. Aside from the True Grit remake and parts of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, I don’t … Continue reading No Country for Old Men (2007) Review
The “Death of Superman” is one of the biggest events in comic history. It was a huge moment which spanned various comic-book titles, introduced new characters and gave us a key story which is ripe to be adapted for the big … Continue reading Superman: Doomsday (2007) Review
To give Resident Evil credit, it is growing and developing as each sequel arrives. From one location, to a city and now to the end of the world, the scope for the movie is larger and the story is developing as … Continue reading Review Bonanza: Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) Review
Pixar are fantastic at taking an idea or concept and playing with it. The initial concept of “what if your toys are alive when you can’t see them” was a great one to develop, as was the idea of the monsters … Continue reading Pixar Month: Ratatouille (2007) Review
By the end of Dead Man’s Chest, there were at least six principle characters, each with different agendas and motivations, all butting heads with each other. What Dead Man’s Chest had done was to create a complex multi-faceted story which was … Continue reading Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) Review
When writers choose who to create biopics for, you have to believe that something interesting happened in their lives to warrant that choice. Martin Luther King, Johnny Cash, Mohammed Ali and many others give a flavour of the interesting lives people … Continue reading Control (2007) Review
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